Seven Beer Wonders of the World
by Sher D Fly on 26/08/07 at 1:07 am
Can I offer you a chocolate beer with that Sir?
1. BILK
“BILK” basically means Beer plus Milk. The idea to produce BILK (which is 30% milk and 70% beer) came from a liquor shop owner in Hokkaido, Japan. In order to solve the problem of overproduction of local milk and to help out his fellow friends and family members (mostly dairy farmers), he proposed to add the milk to beer. BILK also contains hops and the process of making it does not differ much from the normal brewery process. It looks and tastes like ordinary beer with a strong scent of milk and hints of sweet fruity flavor. Currently, BILK is sold only in Japan. However, due to heavy media attention and high local demand, the product is normally out of stock.
2.
CHOCOLATE BEER
This limited edition of the “Imperial Chocolate Stout”” is produced by Atsugi, Japan Brewery just before the Valentines Day celebration. What’s unusual about this product is it doesn’t even contain any cocoa even though the beverage tastes chocolatey and there is a word “Chocolate” in its name. To produce this beer, the malt is roasted at a very high temperature to create the chocolate flavor and darker body. It has an alcohol content of 8.9 percent. The beer costs around 630 yen per bottle and is available only in Japan.
3.
CHAMPAGNE BEER
Cobra Beer Inc USA launched the “Krait Prestige Champagne Lager” in 2006. This beverage is a combination of champagne and lager or beer in one bottle. The term “Champagne” actually describes the process of making this product. Once the beverage is packed into 750ml bottles, they will be injected with ale yeast and it is cork conditioned for 2 weeks. The retail price of this product is about $13 per bottle.
4. DOG’S BEER
A pet shop owner in The Netherlands came up with an idea to create beer for her pet dog. The non-alcoholic beverage is made of beef extract and malt. A small local brewery helped her to make her dream come true by producing the beverage, labeled as “Kwispelbier”, which basically means beer for the wagging tail. It costs about $2.15 per bottle or equivalent to Euro 1.65.
5.
PIZZA BEER
The “Mamma Mia Pizza Beer” was created by Tom and Athena Seefurth of Campton Township, Illinois, USA in 2006. The
beer is now sold in their local restaurant and it claims to be the world’s first culinary beer. The ingredients to produce this beverage include tomatoes, onions, garlics and spices such as oregano and basil. Obviously, “the beer tastes of the ingredients mentioned above” as claimed by the locals who have tasted it.
6. BEER-SICLES
A restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia came up with the idea of creating the beer-sicles or frozen beer popsicles-look-alike made from 99 percent beer quite recently. However, due to
controversy and possible violation
of the local alcohol law, the production of the said beer-sicles was put to a temporary stop until further notice.
7. LAUGHING BEER
Israeli chemical engineers came up with the idea of infusing beer with a small amount of laughing gas or nitrous oxide, nitrous oxide, a controlled substance in Israel. It is said that the beer may cause the drinker to laugh. It might be a good way to have some fun and relieve some stress too. However,this product is not in the market yet, pending the approval from the local Health Ministry and patenting procedures.
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Bee
Aug 26th, 2007
great article u have here.
lara
Aug 27th, 2007
would luv to try the laughin beer…muahaha
Dan
Aug 27th, 2007
A lot of brewers make a chocolate stout. Brooklyn Brewery’s is very good.
Patrick
Aug 27th, 2007
New Glarus Spotted Cow is a beer made with milk from here in Wisconsin. It’s surprisingly good; it has a very mild taste and a kind of milky gold color.
To be honest, a lot of people that drink the beer have no idea there is milk in it and are pretty surprised when I tell them what the cow on their bottle is there for.
IMSA12
Aug 27th, 2007
Sorry Patrick, but New Glarus Spotted Cow does not contain any milk. The reason it has its “milky” appearance, however slight, is that the brewers do not filter out the yeast when they bottle it. And given the names of some of their other brews that I’ve had (Fat Squirrel, Totally Naked, etc.), the Spotted Cow name doesn’t suprise me.
Elliot
Aug 27th, 2007
a chocolate stout is by no means only available in japan. Rouge Brewery makes a fantastic one widely available across the US.
melee
Aug 27th, 2007
Sorry, Elliot, that’d be ROGUE brewery.
thephilbot
Aug 27th, 2007
Young’s Brewery of England also makes a Chocolate Stout. It is made with “chocolate malt”, mentioned in the Japanese beer, though simply roasting any malt at high temperature will not necessarily bring chocolate taste; you need a “chocolate malt” for chocolate tasting malt. Young’s also adds bakers chocolate to their stout, and accurately call it “Double Chocolate Stout” due to the the dual instance of chocolate flavoring. It’s widely available on both sides of the pond.
Adam
Aug 27th, 2007
Chocolate beer yummm
pat
Aug 27th, 2007
i wonder what the dog’s beer taste like…can i hve one please?
PatrickWI
Aug 28th, 2007
Actually the Lake Louie Brewing Co. in Arena, WI makes a milk stout that is quite good.
Tim
Aug 29th, 2007
Mate .. you should check out belgian beers
way weirder stuff.
There is a bar in centre brussels called “Delirium” (after the delirium tremens brewery) - they cater over 2400 different kinds of beer , opposite that bar is a bar called “Floris” with over 150 absinths and 100 vodkas , next to it “Floris Gardens” with chacaca and rum and tequila …
REEVZY
Sep 2nd, 2007
Yeh chocolate stout available in homebrew sheds in Western Australia also.Brewus Tewus and BeerBuzz have made a couple. Chilli beer,,, peach and numerous other flavours can be obtained by simply carbonating with the right measure of fruit,essence, syrup or even jelly beams.Just a thought by ive never tried it with MMs. I would imagine the dog beer would taste like stock cubes.
Prabin
Sep 3rd, 2007
I like this topic and explanation of the seven wonder beer. Now I heard to know people develop this types of beer whats the wonderful thnaks for the writer.
Sher D Fly
Sep 3rd, 2007
Thank you for your support and comments. I will try to improve my articles in future.
sorry_gardener
Sep 4th, 2007
beer popsicles. sure would luv to get my hands or my tongue on tht. Never knew there exists other interesting version of beers. Bottoms up to the writer!
Amy
Sep 6th, 2007
Patrick, Spotted Cow does not have milk in it. It is cloudy because the yeast remains in the bottle. It is named Spotted Cow because the owner wanted to name a beer after all the spotted cows in Wisconsin after she realized that WI has a large population of spotted cows and they look funny to people in other states. Fat Squirrel is named for all the Fat Squirrels around the brewery getting fat off all the grains.
Leo
Sep 10th, 2007
Nitrous oxide actually is used in many beers, and the laughing effect is not present. Try some Guinness sometime, it is probably the most popular nitrous beer. The restaurant I manage uses a 60% carbon dioxide 40% nitrous oxide mix for all of our beer.
sessame deed
Sep 16th, 2007
Even without nitrous oxide after 4 glass, I would be laughing too,I guess.
Mys Lyke Meeh
Sep 30th, 2007
Beauty lies in the eyes of beerholder.
Lem
Nov 3rd, 2007
Bilk? Wow the Japanese do have the weirdest ideas
Ms Cookie
Nov 3rd, 2007
Can i have a cookie with my Bilk? Hahahaha
marg
Mar 24th, 2008
no comment
Homebrew5
Jun 19th, 2009
All intriguing with the exception the ‘Bilk’ which I can only see as a zymurgical (look it up) abomination.
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